I'd like to write some songs that are so good that nobody understands them. Not even myself.

I don’t envision a long life for myself. Like, I think my life will run out before my work does, y’know? I’ve designed it that way.

I've met Bob Dylan's bodyguards, and if Steve Earle thinks he can stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table, he's sadly mistaken.

There are only two kinds of songs; there's the blues, and there's zip-a-dee-doo-dah.

There's only two kinds of music: the blues and zippety doo-dah.

I don't know why I write really depressing songs. I'm a kind of melancholy guy, I suppose. But I figure I'm about normal.

Im the mold that grunge was grown in.